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Just go with Ubuntu, don't even think about it. Most things work right out of the box, there's a ton of help out there and the package management is ace. Instal
by revorad 17y ago
Just go with Ubuntu, don't even think about it. Most things work right out of the box, there's a ton of help out there and the package management is ace. Installing anything pretty much only takes: sudo apt-get install anything.
(Confession: As far as the desktop experience is concerned, I do miss XP. Ubuntu has come a long way but there are just these little things in the UI...)
- rbanffy 17y ago> I do miss XP Oh boy. I am an Ubuntu user and I have been using Windows for a year now (corporate policy - don't ask...) and in the first 6 months it drove me crazy. The first thing I did was to install Cygwin and Emacs in order to have a proper terminal and a text-editor, but, still, the seemingly random slowdowns, moments when even the mouse pointer wouldn't move... More memory reduced the pain, but, still, I miss select-copy and middle-click-paste. If you can read Portuguese, I wrote about it on http://www.dieblinkenlights.com/artigos_pt/vivendo-no-windows http://www.dieblinkenlights.com/artigos_pt/vivendo-no-window... and http://www.dieblinkenlights.com/artigos_pt/o-windows-esta-pronto-para-o-usuario-experiente http://www.dieblinkenlights.com/artigos_pt/o-windows-esta-pr...
- kilian 17y agoselect-copy and middle-click-paste lacking are one of the biggest annoyances for me whenever I have to use windows or osx. Linux/Ubuntu/Gnome have a lot of small things like that that dramatically improve usability. It annoys me to no end when people complain about usability on linux and then gloss over such things.